Paul Robinson-Little
@poeticfields.bsky.social
Paragenerate poet | Archiving perturbations in poetic fields | CW PhD researcher University of Liverpool’s sotauol.bsky.social | Liverpool Workhouse Archives | Genesis|Terminus @hesterglock.bsky.social | littlerobinson.wordpress.com
Each tile or flag makes up a vast lattice of suffering, a patchwork of trauma unbeknownst to the volunteer ecclesiasts that welcome tourists from around the world to this concrete crypt.
November 15, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Each tile or flag makes up a vast lattice of suffering, a patchwork of trauma unbeknownst to the volunteer ecclesiasts that welcome tourists from around the world to this concrete crypt.
Adept seagulls intelligently intercepting the field of flow:
September 16, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Adept seagulls intelligently intercepting the field of flow:
A stitched 2D SketchUp map-model of Brownlow Hill Workhouse based on the 1864 Parish of Liverpool Block General Plan. The site of the workhouse is currently occupied by Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral. #workhouse #liverpool
June 6, 2025 at 8:18 PM
A stitched 2D SketchUp map-model of Brownlow Hill Workhouse based on the 1864 Parish of Liverpool Block General Plan. The site of the workhouse is currently occupied by Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral. #workhouse #liverpool
For poetic-theoretical-philosophical consumption only.
Four matchbox-size brick samples in a paper towel. The brick samples have been cut from bricks belonging (?) to Liverpool’s ‘citadel’ Workhouse, once located where the Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King now stands.
Four matchbox-size brick samples in a paper towel. The brick samples have been cut from bricks belonging (?) to Liverpool’s ‘citadel’ Workhouse, once located where the Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King now stands.
May 22, 2025 at 2:16 PM
For poetic-theoretical-philosophical consumption only.
Four matchbox-size brick samples in a paper towel. The brick samples have been cut from bricks belonging (?) to Liverpool’s ‘citadel’ Workhouse, once located where the Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King now stands.
Four matchbox-size brick samples in a paper towel. The brick samples have been cut from bricks belonging (?) to Liverpool’s ‘citadel’ Workhouse, once located where the Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King now stands.
Blackacre
Monica Youn
Graywolf Press
ISBN: 978-1-55597-750-4
“This is an allegory / for what has been discarded”
Epiphyte, p.32
Monica Youn
Graywolf Press
ISBN: 978-1-55597-750-4
“This is an allegory / for what has been discarded”
Epiphyte, p.32
April 14, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Blackacre
Monica Youn
Graywolf Press
ISBN: 978-1-55597-750-4
“This is an allegory / for what has been discarded”
Epiphyte, p.32
Monica Youn
Graywolf Press
ISBN: 978-1-55597-750-4
“This is an allegory / for what has been discarded”
Epiphyte, p.32
Walls: A History of Civilization in Blood and Brick
David Frye
Faber & Faber, 2018
ISBN: 978-0-571-34841-1 (hardback)
David Frye
Faber & Faber, 2018
ISBN: 978-0-571-34841-1 (hardback)
March 11, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Walls: A History of Civilization in Blood and Brick
David Frye
Faber & Faber, 2018
ISBN: 978-0-571-34841-1 (hardback)
David Frye
Faber & Faber, 2018
ISBN: 978-0-571-34841-1 (hardback)
Time and Narrative
Paul Ricoeur
Translated by Kathleen McLaughlin and David Pellauer
The University of Chicago Press, 1990
ISBN: 0-226-71332-6 (v. 1, paper)
“With mimesis opens the kingdom of the as if.”
Paul Ricoeur
Translated by Kathleen McLaughlin and David Pellauer
The University of Chicago Press, 1990
ISBN: 0-226-71332-6 (v. 1, paper)
“With mimesis opens the kingdom of the as if.”
January 29, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Time and Narrative
Paul Ricoeur
Translated by Kathleen McLaughlin and David Pellauer
The University of Chicago Press, 1990
ISBN: 0-226-71332-6 (v. 1, paper)
“With mimesis opens the kingdom of the as if.”
Paul Ricoeur
Translated by Kathleen McLaughlin and David Pellauer
The University of Chicago Press, 1990
ISBN: 0-226-71332-6 (v. 1, paper)
“With mimesis opens the kingdom of the as if.”
Brick Index
Edited and designed by Patrick Fry
ISBN: 978-1-9164121-1-8
CentreCentre, 2019
“What isn’t in doubt for anyone prepared to spend time with this revelatory catalogue is that even the humble brick can be singled out and admired as an object of rough-hewn beauty.”
Edited and designed by Patrick Fry
ISBN: 978-1-9164121-1-8
CentreCentre, 2019
“What isn’t in doubt for anyone prepared to spend time with this revelatory catalogue is that even the humble brick can be singled out and admired as an object of rough-hewn beauty.”
January 25, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Brick Index
Edited and designed by Patrick Fry
ISBN: 978-1-9164121-1-8
CentreCentre, 2019
“What isn’t in doubt for anyone prepared to spend time with this revelatory catalogue is that even the humble brick can be singled out and admired as an object of rough-hewn beauty.”
Edited and designed by Patrick Fry
ISBN: 978-1-9164121-1-8
CentreCentre, 2019
“What isn’t in doubt for anyone prepared to spend time with this revelatory catalogue is that even the humble brick can be singled out and admired as an object of rough-hewn beauty.”
New Science
Giambattista Vico
Penguin Books, 2013
ISBN: 978-0-140-43569-6
“People first feel things without noticing them, then notice them with inner distress and disturbance, and finally reflect on them with a clear mind.”
(p.94)
Giambattista Vico
Penguin Books, 2013
ISBN: 978-0-140-43569-6
“People first feel things without noticing them, then notice them with inner distress and disturbance, and finally reflect on them with a clear mind.”
(p.94)
January 7, 2025 at 3:32 PM
New Science
Giambattista Vico
Penguin Books, 2013
ISBN: 978-0-140-43569-6
“People first feel things without noticing them, then notice them with inner distress and disturbance, and finally reflect on them with a clear mind.”
(p.94)
Giambattista Vico
Penguin Books, 2013
ISBN: 978-0-140-43569-6
“People first feel things without noticing them, then notice them with inner distress and disturbance, and finally reflect on them with a clear mind.”
(p.94)
Blue Mythologies
Carol Mavor
Reaktion Books Ltd, 2013
ISBN: 978 1 78023 083 2
“Venice is a small and magical wet city. Venice is a blue Fortuny dress of 117 folded islands. The shimmering folds of Fortuny’s Delphos gown reflect the city of water (Venice) from which the dresses surfaced.”
(p.147)
Carol Mavor
Reaktion Books Ltd, 2013
ISBN: 978 1 78023 083 2
“Venice is a small and magical wet city. Venice is a blue Fortuny dress of 117 folded islands. The shimmering folds of Fortuny’s Delphos gown reflect the city of water (Venice) from which the dresses surfaced.”
(p.147)
January 1, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Blue Mythologies
Carol Mavor
Reaktion Books Ltd, 2013
ISBN: 978 1 78023 083 2
“Venice is a small and magical wet city. Venice is a blue Fortuny dress of 117 folded islands. The shimmering folds of Fortuny’s Delphos gown reflect the city of water (Venice) from which the dresses surfaced.”
(p.147)
Carol Mavor
Reaktion Books Ltd, 2013
ISBN: 978 1 78023 083 2
“Venice is a small and magical wet city. Venice is a blue Fortuny dress of 117 folded islands. The shimmering folds of Fortuny’s Delphos gown reflect the city of water (Venice) from which the dresses surfaced.”
(p.147)
Tide is in early at Liverpool’s Metropolitan Cathedral on this New Year’s Day morning.
January 1, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Tide is in early at Liverpool’s Metropolitan Cathedral on this New Year’s Day morning.
Here we go… 1 of 4 beginnings of a 3D model of Brownlow Hill Workhouse using the 1864 Parish of Liverpool Block General Plan. This section would match up with the front steps up to Liverpool’s Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King.
December 30, 2024 at 8:51 AM
Here we go… 1 of 4 beginnings of a 3D model of Brownlow Hill Workhouse using the 1864 Parish of Liverpool Block General Plan. This section would match up with the front steps up to Liverpool’s Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King.
A post-Christmas assemblage of clothing scattered across a bench on the grounds of the University of Liverpool: a shoe, underpants, socks, jumper, etc.
December 28, 2024 at 11:25 AM
A post-Christmas assemblage of clothing scattered across a bench on the grounds of the University of Liverpool: a shoe, underpants, socks, jumper, etc.
A Check List of the Fauna of Lancashire and Cheshire: Part 1
“[Rhinolophus hipposiderus (Bech.). Lesser Horseshoe Bat. L. Reported by Forbes. C. Reported by Byerley. Neither report confirmed. Grindon's statement that R. FERRUM-EQUINUM (Schreb.) occurs near Manchester has no foundation. VI., 76.]”
“[Rhinolophus hipposiderus (Bech.). Lesser Horseshoe Bat. L. Reported by Forbes. C. Reported by Byerley. Neither report confirmed. Grindon's statement that R. FERRUM-EQUINUM (Schreb.) occurs near Manchester has no foundation. VI., 76.]”
December 6, 2024 at 1:41 PM
A Check List of the Fauna of Lancashire and Cheshire: Part 1
“[Rhinolophus hipposiderus (Bech.). Lesser Horseshoe Bat. L. Reported by Forbes. C. Reported by Byerley. Neither report confirmed. Grindon's statement that R. FERRUM-EQUINUM (Schreb.) occurs near Manchester has no foundation. VI., 76.]”
“[Rhinolophus hipposiderus (Bech.). Lesser Horseshoe Bat. L. Reported by Forbes. C. Reported by Byerley. Neither report confirmed. Grindon's statement that R. FERRUM-EQUINUM (Schreb.) occurs near Manchester has no foundation. VI., 76.]”
Exquisite Cadavers
Meena Kandasamy
Atlantic Books, 2019
ISBN: 978 1 78649 965 3 (hardback)
“She has a penchant for collecting grief, the skirts of pencil shavings, Fortnum & Mason tea tins, retro cushion covers and aeroplane boarding cards from their overseas holidays.”
(Parallel Lines, p.68)
Meena Kandasamy
Atlantic Books, 2019
ISBN: 978 1 78649 965 3 (hardback)
“She has a penchant for collecting grief, the skirts of pencil shavings, Fortnum & Mason tea tins, retro cushion covers and aeroplane boarding cards from their overseas holidays.”
(Parallel Lines, p.68)
November 10, 2024 at 12:04 PM
Exquisite Cadavers
Meena Kandasamy
Atlantic Books, 2019
ISBN: 978 1 78649 965 3 (hardback)
“She has a penchant for collecting grief, the skirts of pencil shavings, Fortnum & Mason tea tins, retro cushion covers and aeroplane boarding cards from their overseas holidays.”
(Parallel Lines, p.68)
Meena Kandasamy
Atlantic Books, 2019
ISBN: 978 1 78649 965 3 (hardback)
“She has a penchant for collecting grief, the skirts of pencil shavings, Fortnum & Mason tea tins, retro cushion covers and aeroplane boarding cards from their overseas holidays.”
(Parallel Lines, p.68)
Been pointing at stuff recently. This is me and my brother on a trip to Egypt:
September 7, 2024 at 12:01 PM
Been pointing at stuff recently. This is me and my brother on a trip to Egypt:
The Dark Tower
Louis MacNeice
Faber and Faber Ltd, 1967
ISBN: pre-1970
“ROLAND (with quiet conviction).
The world is mad."
(p.35)
Louis MacNeice
Faber and Faber Ltd, 1967
ISBN: pre-1970
“ROLAND (with quiet conviction).
The world is mad."
(p.35)
September 4, 2024 at 9:56 AM
The Dark Tower
Louis MacNeice
Faber and Faber Ltd, 1967
ISBN: pre-1970
“ROLAND (with quiet conviction).
The world is mad."
(p.35)
Louis MacNeice
Faber and Faber Ltd, 1967
ISBN: pre-1970
“ROLAND (with quiet conviction).
The world is mad."
(p.35)
August 4, 2024 at 8:39 AM
Don’t Let Me Be Lonely:
An American Lyric
Claudia Rankine
Graywolf Press, 2004
Penguin Books, 2017
“Maybe hope is the same as breath—part of / what it means to be human and alive.”
An American Lyric
Claudia Rankine
Graywolf Press, 2004
Penguin Books, 2017
“Maybe hope is the same as breath—part of / what it means to be human and alive.”
July 18, 2024 at 7:43 PM
Don’t Let Me Be Lonely:
An American Lyric
Claudia Rankine
Graywolf Press, 2004
Penguin Books, 2017
“Maybe hope is the same as breath—part of / what it means to be human and alive.”
An American Lyric
Claudia Rankine
Graywolf Press, 2004
Penguin Books, 2017
“Maybe hope is the same as breath—part of / what it means to be human and alive.”
We've just received our copy of ARCHIVES from the British Records Association via @livunipress.bsky.social Think I may be 2nd in the queue on this read. 🐈📖
June 28, 2024 at 9:02 AM
We've just received our copy of ARCHIVES from the British Records Association via @livunipress.bsky.social Think I may be 2nd in the queue on this read. 🐈📖
Time Displacement Scenario No.1
May 11, 2024 at 9:43 AM
Time Displacement Scenario No.1
RIP Yosser Hughes #BernardHill #boysfromtheblackstuff
May 8, 2024 at 7:41 AM
RIP Yosser Hughes #BernardHill #boysfromtheblackstuff
Liverpool’s Abercromby Square is in protest mode today:
May 7, 2024 at 11:42 AM
Liverpool’s Abercromby Square is in protest mode today:
Purchased Safia Elhillo's (@mafiasafia) Girls that Never Die at Sam Read Bookseller (@SReadBooks) in Grasmere, Cumbria. Strong poetry selection, if you're ever up/down/through themways. 📚
April 20, 2024 at 3:24 PM
Purchased Safia Elhillo's (@mafiasafia) Girls that Never Die at Sam Read Bookseller (@SReadBooks) in Grasmere, Cumbria. Strong poetry selection, if you're ever up/down/through themways. 📚
Seagulls attempting to gain access to one of the buildings at the University of Liverpool. They've identified a source of food inside the foyer, students' lunch, and are figuring out the automatic doors.
April 15, 2024 at 11:37 AM
Seagulls attempting to gain access to one of the buildings at the University of Liverpool. They've identified a source of food inside the foyer, students' lunch, and are figuring out the automatic doors.